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Excerpt from Life, Vol. 18: April 7, 1941 To the generation who are too young to have known the first World War except through the cynical histories that were writ ten after that war, it must sound strange to hear that in 1917 as in 1941 the determining cause of the American intervention was the need to defend America by preventing the conquest of the other shore of the Atlantic Ocean. They have been told about the idealism of Wilson and the hysteria of the war propaganda, and they will find it hard to believe that we intervened in 1917 as we are intervening in 1941 to support the strategical defense of the Western Hemisphere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.